SatNav Dips Below The £100 Mark Again...

haveagoade

Ask at a local independent orange dealer who'll be glad of your custom unlike the national chains, shop around they are avai;able for free on a Business Plus 120 tariff.
Currently on offer for 6 months 1/2 price on the lowest £22/month.


Okay correction I just checked and they pulled the offer at end of Sept!

So sorry guys.......Its Gone!

I checked in local Orange shop and its free on £30/month and over.

sillygoose

I have an original TomTom Go which I can type into with my finger on the touch screen. A lot of the latest SatNav's seem to be getting tiny and need a stylus to input. It worries me that if a screen is too small you cannot easily glance at it but will spend longer focussing on it. A bit of a safefy thing.

How about 'virtually' new units here?
TomTom One £129 6 months warranty and all the car bits included.
http://www.valutech.co.uk/prod.asp?ID=286
Or this £139 Sony U50 looks like a good specification
http://www.valutech.co.uk/prod.asp?ID=265
Also available as B-grade stock for £119
http://www.valutech.co.uk/prod.asp?ID=287

Just a thought

italiastar

haveagoade wrote:

Thats why you should've got a Bluetooth gps unit.

What diffrence will that make - it still won't work through the screen and you cant stick it on the roof

Forgot to add - It'll eat batteries, unless of course you use a power lead, which defeats the object.

haveagoade

italiastar wrote:

What diffrence will that make - it still won't work through the screen and you cant stick it on the roof

Forgot to add - It'll eat batteries, unless of course you use a power lead, which defeats the object.

Well have you heard of rear windows, and you could put it up near the sunroof without a naff cable hanging down.

And NO they do not EAT batteries either. mine lasts all week with out a charge. And certainly longer than the mobile running the sat nav anyway, and they both charge using the same car adaptor so no problem at all.

You can postion the B/T gps unit right down in the corner of a front screen where there is no heater element in the screen, and you can still see the mobile on your dash, and no cables running round your car.....but hey its up to you!

nixy

can anyone tell me if you can buy additional maps for the halfords navsure unit. I am looking at buying a satnav for my parents who live in France but don't have a big budget.

happyhkv

nixy wrote:

can anyone tell me if you can buy additional maps for the halfords navsure unit. I am looking at buying a satnav for my parents who live in France but don't have a big budget.

You will find Navsure 300 (£119.99) comes with full euro maps

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_239005_langId_-1_CarSelectorCatalogId__CarSelectorGroupId__varient__categoryId_33962_crumb_31265_parentcategoryrn_33962

mcwarre

mpython wrote:

Definetly check it'll work in your car beforehand if poss. I got a Navman 620 earlier this year which works in my wife's peugeot 206 but not my 406. I bought an external aerial which didn't work either until I put it under the sunroof but with the trailing lead was just not practical!

Still, my wife's chuffed.

Look at the front windscreen around your rear view mirror. Does it have a kind of black spotted area? (most cars with reflective windscreens do) put your gps (wired) here then you can hide the cable going across the top of the windscreen and down the bit between the front and side windows and across the dash. Did it with mine and an A1 job (rear view mirror also helps hide the GPS receiver)

gjchester

Garmin have been around for years and do updates for there Kit. NavSure is Halfords own brand.

I know who I expect to be around next year.. My i3 has already had 2 updates to it and I know there is more likely to be updates from Garmin than a Car parts stores OEM solution.

armthorpian

Garmin I3 Sat Nav is now on sale at CarphoneWarehouse at £99.99.
Site shows out of stock so I called them - they still have stock left and ar delivering tomorrow.

CFC

Geez will you males stop arguing about whose car-related bit is biggest and best? You know what we females say about cars and men! When will you get it that a car is NOT a secondary sexual characteristic, not as far as we're concerned anyway????

Whatever suits you best IS the best...the best for YOU.